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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

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Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc., 548 Woodward, Detroit 26, Mich., CA. 1040

Friday, October 29, 1948 (Tishri 26, 5709)

There are two big dates on your calendar
for next week.
One is Sunday when the SOS collection
will be made. Open your heart to your
needy and despondent brothers in the DP
camps.
And the other is Tuesday—Election Day.
Be a good citizen. Show your love for free-
dom by voting. Your vote will help pre-
serve it.

Bunche Is a Blunderer

Only a few days following the Berna-
dotte assassination, we advised the replace-
ment of Dr. Ralph Bunche as acting UN
mediator for Palestine because of his pa-
tent bias for the Arabs and capricious
statements concerning the slaying.

Virtually everything that Bunche has said
and done since that time confirms our view
that he is singularly inept for the job that
has fallen to him by accident.

There is probably an explanation for his
bungling. His loyalty to his slain chief
has apparently prejudiced him violently
against Israel, whose government he blames
unjustly for the murder.

As a Negro, he succumbs to a weakness
of many leaders in minority groups who
bend over backwards in performing their
duty.

Bundle should be expected, as an Ameri-
can Negro and aware of the intolerance
that equally besets Jewry and his people,
to favor the Jewish cause. To demonstrate
his ostensible objectivity, Bunche, instead,
becomes a friend of the Arabs and goes so
far as to play into the hands of Britain
and collaborate in the writing of the evil
Bernadotte plan.
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All the ugly details are told in Lillie
Shultz's revealing article in the Oct. 23
"Nation". We wish more correspondents
had Miss Shultz's reputation for fair and
honest reporting. She discloses that it was
Punche who conceived the idea of satis-
ying British greed for the Negev as a po-
tential air base by suggesting that the
desert area be ripped away from the ter-
ritory assigned to the Jews.
Not Bernadotte but the State Depart-
ment's Robert McClintock and Britain's
Sir John Troutbeck,..acting on Bunche's
• urging, wrote into the mediator's report
the recommendation that the Negev be
handed over to the Arabs, meaning Trans-
jordan and ultimately Britain. McClintock
then went over to Paris and wrote Secre-
tary Marshall's statement fully indorsing
the "Bernadotte plan".
Satisfied with this state of events, Bunche
went to work to belittle Israel in the eyes
of the world and to impute to its leaders
malevolent and brutish acts that would
bring only enmity and contempt for the
infant State.
• • •

Ile began by holding the Israelim respon-
sible for the Bernadotte tragedy, charging
before the Security Council that the gov-
ernment had been guilty of negligence in
failing to provide the count with an escort.
This was promptly proved to be false
when the Jewish governor of Jerusalem
pointed out that UN personnel consistently
'refu s ed offers of protection on the basis
' that they wanted complete freedom of
movement.
Ignoring the Jewish refutation, Bunche
again "vent before the Security Council and
charged "negligence by the local Jewish
authorities". He asked the Council to or-
der Israel to detail exactly what she was
doing to apprehend the slayers, forgetting
all about Israel's continuous reports to the
UN on the progress of the search.
Later, in one of the most ridiculous prop-,
esitions enunciated before the international
body, Bunche declared that the war in Pal-
estine was "brought about by the fact that
the Jews had taken a political offensive
and proclaimed the State while the Arab
states, in retaliation, took the military

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offensive." This in fare of the UN resolu-
tion of Nov , . 29 authorizing the promulga-
tion of the Jewish State.

Two Big Dates Next Week

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GEORGE WEISWASSER,• Editor-in-Chief

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Friday, October 29, 1948

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NEWS!

Explaining the resumption of fighting in
the Negev, Bunche reaffirmed his hostility
to Israel by charging that the Jewish re-
taliatory action had been long planned.
Such a remark was so absurd that the
usually unperturbable Aubrey Eban, the
Israeli representative at the Council table,
clashed bitterly with the UN mediator over
his version.
Eban pointed out that because of its
easy accessibility to the Arabs, the Negev
areas had always been in a state of total
mobilisation. He pointed out to the UN
aide some points on which he had remained
silent, particularly the fact that the Egyp-
tians had flatly violated Bunche's own rul-
ings on convoy travel in the.disputed zone.
By accusing the Israeli, Bunche thought
appaiently that he could conceal his fail-
ure in enforcing the UN directives.

From the above, it should be evident
that Bunche should be persona non grata
to Israel and that he should be replaced
by someone wiser, and more open-minded
than he.

See You at Balfour Ball

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Letters to the Editor

TH1RKELL SCHOOL GROUP isting local or national associa-
tions.
Dear Editor:
An alternate recommendation
The news item titled "New PT
at Thirkell School" which ap- was made by one of the parents
peared in the Oct. 22 issue of present that the proposed par-
the Jewish Chronicle inaccurate- ent-teacher organization be a lo.
ly reported that an independent cal branch of the National Con-
parent-teacher group had been gress of Parents and Teachers,
formed under my chairmanship. commonly referred to as PTA.
While it was evident at the
At the meeting of the parents
and teachers held at Thirkell on meeting that the parents present
Oot. 1, at which Dr. Sullivan were interested in forming an
spoke e" "Children and Their organization at e Thirkellto work
Parents. ' and for which the use with the teachers in a coopera-
of the auditorium was paid for tive effort and in mutual under-
by the Board of Education, I standing, Ulric did not permit a
presented a report and resolu- full discussion of the form that
tion of a representative group of such an organization should take
parents and teachers which had and it was voted 72 to 22 that
been meeting during the sum- another meeting be held in No-
mer, recommending that a Par- vember to discuss and vote on
ent-Teacher Organization of that question. Such a meeting
Thirkell School be formed and is now being planned. •
LOUIS MENK,
that this organization do not af-
filiate itself with any of the ex-
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Last year the entire ballroom floor of
the Statler was jammed with gay dancers,
swinging away to the music of two bands
in separate halls. For those sitting it out,
there were ample facilities for refreshment
in an adjoining cocktail lounge especially
set up for the event.
This year's affair promises to be even
better attended and more enjoyable in view
of the fact that the committee is taking
measures to avert the crowding which
slowed up things at last year's dance.
It is important that the ball have record
support this year because in it are com-
bined two fund-raising projects for Detroit
Zionism. In addition to helping finance
local Zionist activities, the ball this year
will provide the funds for Detroit Jewry's
annual contribution to the Ameiican Zionist
Fund to foster Zionism nationally.
Attendance at the ball Saturday, Nov. 13 E
will assure everyone a good time. In ad- ZIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIMINIIIIiIIIIIN1110111111111111f111111111111111111 BY Seymoi 4r Tilenin
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dition, they will help support one of the THE BIRTH OF ISRAEL: The
lies with the parents. The chil-
most significant enterprises of American
Drama As I Saw It by Jorge dren snould observe the hOliday,
Jewry.
Garcia-Granados is, in the au- attend the Synagogue and not
thor's own words: "A memorable make a comedy of their Jewish
We'll be looking for you at the ball,
and tremendously rewarding ex-• observance.
• • •
perience." Granados r e c or d•s
events as a member of the UN THE JEWISH VOTE
Sloppy Journalism
Special Committee on Palestine.
THERE HAS BEEN a great
He was on the 11-nations com- deal of controversy as to whether
We were talking last week about journal-
istic irresponsibility when the Detroit mittee that proposed the parti- there is such a thing as a Jewish
tion plan which was adopted in
Times came out with a flagrant example November, 1947 by the Assembly. vote. While Jewish people in gen-
eral vote with the liberal ele-
to support our charges.
He was probably the outstand- ments in this country, I person-
In big headlines, the Times reported that ing friend of Israel on that com- ally don't think there is such a
the fugitives Fleisher and Selik, wanted in mittee and the book certainly thing as a Jewish vote.
the Hooper slaying conspiracy, were on their rates as high as Bartley C.
However, in this election a ho-
Crum's "Behind The Silken Cur-
way to Israel to join the Stern Group.
tain" or Richard Crossman's "Pal- mogeneous Jewish vote is po.isi-
ble on a national scale. After all,
The toy was so preposterous that we estine Mission."
one's vote is determined on the
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assume it must have given you a big laugh.
policy and stand that the candi-
But there is another slant to the situa- 'JEWISH HOLIDAYS .
A SERIOUS PROBLEM has date takes with regard to domes-
tion. World Jewry is trying to live down
tic and foreign affairs.
the vast harm done to Israel's prospects arisen in particular localitief .
One of the hottest issues of the
which
may
cause
repercussions
of
by the assassination of Count Bernadotte,
day is the Palestinian question
allegedly by the Stern Group. Many per- an unsavory_ nature.
On Jewish holidays like Suc- with which every Jew and the
sons inclined to be friends of the struggling coth, Jewish children stay away world itself are concerned. At this
infant State were alienated by the sense- from school for two days. They moment one candidate is in a po-
less slaying.
do riot to the Synagogue; in- sition to take positive action in
Stories like that of Time magazine two stead they put on their .91d the same manner as he did when
weeks ago to which we alluded in our ,Oct. clothes, go down to the Central 'he gave de facto recognition to
22 issue and the Detroit Times canard high school field and play 414 ....
• The Gentile youngsters c4n see
fil'e 'other candidate is
in
leave the impression that the Stern Group
them through the school windows a position to make promises. As
is still all-powerful and plays an impoiiiiit
and can't quite grasp the sig,ni- Agog as the incumbent refuses to
part in Israeli affairs.
ficance of a• holiday where chil- take such action he cannot have
The truth is that the Stern Group has dren get playground recreation the full confidence of the Jewish
been virtually wiped out. There is no gang all day.
voter as to what he will do fol-
Oddly enough some of the chil- lowing election.
left to which Fleisher and Selik could pos-
dren whose parents belong to Re-
sibly look for asylum.
I think it's a grave error on his
The Times story was an out and out fab- formed Temples stay away only part as he is bound to lose a
one day and go to school the sec- great numbeeof Jewish votes by
rication. It is another sad example of how
ond day. Such children are har-
on
careless, sloppy and vindictive writing can assed by other Jewish young- reason thereof. His statement
Monday, as well as Gov. Dewey's
create harm and, most definitely, lessen sters and are called "goy."
is ambiguous. Why doesn't he
the average reader's respect for the jour-
Something ought to be done stop quibbling and recognize Is-
nalistic profession.
about this situation. The blame rael in full?

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